Posts Tagged ‘Eminem’

Just in time for the release of Marvel’s blockbuster Venom, Eminem has released the official video for his track of the same name. Unsurprisingly, it’s a dark and murky affair that has plenty of body-hopping symbiote action but, sadly, no Tom Hardy.

The “Venom” visual is a continuation of Em’s video for “Fall,” which ends with him smashing a CD copy of his (oft-panned) 2017 album, Revival. That disc houses an alien symbiote similar to Venom’s, and it causes a bunch of everyday people — and even a dog! — to spaz out and rap Em’s bars while haphazardly infecting one another. After working its way through the city, the virus eventually gets back to the Detroit MC, who in turn morphs into Venom itself in the vid’s final moments.

Nicki Minaj loves her punchlines, and her latest one is either an expert troll or… yeah, it has to be trolling. Today (May 25), YG released “Big Banks” featuring Minaj, 2 Chainz, and Big Sean. The subject matter of the Mustard-produced song is all there in the title, but it’s Nicki who goes slightly off topic. During her verse, she spits, “Back to back Maybach, stack the Ms / Told ‘em I met Slim Shady, bag the M / Once he go black, he’ll be back again.”

When a fan asked Nicki on Instagram if she was dating Eminem, she replied with a simple, “Yes.” However, the Queens rapper is known to joke around with her fans, especially on social media.

Could a Nicki and Em union potentially work? In an infamous 2017 Vulture interview, Eminem shared that he was on Tinder and discussed how the dating world is treating him.

“It’s tough,” Mathers said. “Since my divorce I’ve had a few dates and nothing’s panned out in a way that I wanted to make it public. Dating’s just not where I’m at lately.”

The Barbz have had a particularly stressful week after the “Chun-Li” rapper announced she was pushing back her album Queen. Depending on how much you ship Slim Shady and Minaj, this is great news.

It’s all Detroit love for Danny Brown and Eminem. During his visit to “RapFix Live” on Wednesday (December 11) Danny explained that he bonded with the “8 Mile” native over a discussion about their hometown, incidentally while the two were overseas in Brussels.“We kicked it one time and we pretty much talked about Detroit the whole time.” Danny explained.

Aside from being from the same town, Danny and Eminem also share the same management team with Paul Rosenberg and Goliath Management. So, what was the elusive Eminem like in person? According to Danny, down-to-earth and chill. “I like that he was super humble,” Danny remembers. ” I feel like I met Marshall…I’d like to kick it with him some more times.”

Danny, who recently released his debut album Old earlier this fall, says that talking to legends in hip-hop is always an educational process for him. “I like to get the game, you know? I like to ask advice like, “Give me the game, man!”

When Eminem decided to title his latest album The Marshall Mathers LP 2, he knew that it must bear some deep lyrical connections to his original 2000 album, and he explained to MTV News the opening track “Bad Guy,” was intended to immediately show those ties. Hear Em break it down in the video above.

With Eminem’s eighth studio album, The Marshall Mathers LP 2, out this week and already setting records on SoundScan, #TBTMTV takes a look back at the year 2004, when Em was riding high off the multi-platinum success of his fifth solo set, Encore and, to his own admission, prescription drugs. The Detroit spitter took a few L’s that year — he lost the Best Rap Album Grammy to Kanye West’s Late Registration — but when it came to battling MTV’s own Sway Calloway in a freestyle rap battle, the blond-haired rap technician emerged victorious. Watch Sway take on Eminem in the video above.